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Apple CoreStorage/File Vault/Fusion Drive Volumes


The macOS operating system has the following disk management systems:

File Vault , is a disk encrypted utility;

Fusion Drive is an Apple's hybrid drive technology;

CoreStorage is a logical volume management system.

R-Drive Image supports all these technologies and can unlock their encrypted volumes (hard drives and images).

Apple CoreStorage/File Vault Volume Imaging

R-Drive Image displays both those volumes and their members on the Partition Selection panel.

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Locked Apple CoreStorage

In the above case, the entire hard drive will be imaged.

You may unlock encrypted volumes and image only them. Click the locked volume and enter the password in the Unlock encrypted drive dialog box.

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Unlocked Apple CoreStorage

In this case the volume will be image without encryption

Data Restore from an Image of CoreStorage/File Vault Volumes

You may restore data from an image of an Apple CoreStorage/File Vault volume with the limitations described in the Support for Various Disk Partition Schemes and File Systems section.

Data restore from an image of an entire storage device to another storage device.

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Apple CoreStorage

In this case the result will be the exact copy of the imaged storage device.

Data restore from an image of an unencrypted an Apple CoreStorage/File Vault volume device to the place of a locked encrypted volume.

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Apple CoreStorage

In this case the result will be an unencrypted volume on the place of the previous encrypted volume.

Data restore from an image of an unencrypted Apple CoreStorage/File Vault volume device to the place of an unlocked encrypted volume.

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Apple CoreStorage

In this case the result will be an encrypted volume on the place of the previous encrypted volume.

Apple Fusion Drive Imaging

R-Drive Image displays both this volume and its members on the Partition Selection panel.

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Apple Fusion Drive

When you select a certain Fusion drive, R-Drive Image also shows its respective components.

Data Restore from an Image of Apple Fusion Drive Volumes

You may restore data from an image of an Apple Fusion Drive volume with the limitations described in the Support for Various Disk Partition Schemes and File Systems section.

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Apple Fusion Drive